Psychometric Properties of the Grief Cognitions Questionnaire for Children (GCQ-C)

Negative thinking is seen as an important mediating factor in the development of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a syndrome encompassing debilitating symptoms of grief. No measure of specific grief related cognitions is available yet. Based on an adult measure of negative thinking in adults we devel...

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Published in:Journal of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy 2017-03, Vol.35 (1), p.60-77
Main Authors: Spuij, Mariken, Prinzie, Peter, Boelen, Paul A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Anxiety
Behavior
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Children
Children & youth
Clinical Psychology
Community and Environmental Psychology
Depression
Education
Grief
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Negative thinking
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychiatry
Psychology
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Public Health
Quantitative psychology
Questionnaires
Reliability
Self report
Stress
Teenagers
Validity
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Summary:Negative thinking is seen as an important mediating factor in the development of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a syndrome encompassing debilitating symptoms of grief. No measure of specific grief related cognitions is available yet. Based on an adult measure of negative thinking in adults we developed a questionnaire for children, the Grief Cognitions Questionnaire for Children (GCQ-C). This study investigated several psychometric properties of the GCQ-C. Both reliability and validity were investigated in this study, in which hundred fifty-one children and adolescents (aged 8–18 years) participated. Findings showed that items of the GCQ-C represented one underlying dimension. Furthermore, the internal consistency and temporal stability were found to be adequate. Third, the findings supported the concurrent validity (e.g., significant positive correlations with self-report indices of PGD, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder), convergent and divergent validity of the GCQ-C. This study provides further evidence for the importance of negative thinking in PGD in children and adolescents.
ISSN:0894-9085
1573-6563
DOI:10.1007/s10942-016-0236-0